Climbing the mountain of definitions

There isn't a page defining meta-social on Wikipedia yet, but I am aiming to be the person who inspires its creation.

This morning I've spent a bit over three and a half hours going through very high-level summaries of meta- things on the Wikipedia platform. I've been doing this partly to get a sense of which ones must be included in the discussion of a meta-social propaganda framework, and also to start locating doorways into pathways of study. Along the way, I discovered that one branch leads off to the realms in which my last thesis dwelled: Interpretation, aka hermeneutics with Heidegger and Gadamer. It's unfortunate that my ex has the only copy of my thesis outside of my university's library (if, indeed, the library still has it after more about 15 years).

So what actually IS meta-social propaganda model? It is a model of social models about propaganda; but in saying social, I mean all aspects of society; perhaps, 'sociology' is better than 'social', as a referential term. So far it will encompass politics (obviously), but also cognition (and the meta-cognition theories), behaviour, power, media, relationships, meta-narratives, metaphysics, meta-communication, meta-marketing, meta-systems. It will consider reflexivity (as part of the meta-cognitive function of the model), how propaganda models have changed, and how human behaviours can be defined by the institution of meta-social propaganda as well as emerging from it.

The definition is extremely sketchy right now; Draft with a Capital D. I'm still right at the beginning of the journey, mapping the territory. I'm extremely grateful right now to the prolific writer (and academic) Anthony Judge (https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/), whose work on meta-models is extremely useful, and whose input is currently a consistent, warm, and welcoming guide. Thanks Tony! :)

The nuts and bolts of engaging in a project like this is not without its incredibly daunting cliffs and dangers, but I am par oneri: Equal to the task.

Even if what I really want to be doing right now is writing tracts about what I'm seeing in the world, instead of laying foundations. Whether we like it or not, foundations maketh the house; not the other way around.